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Revolt of Prairial , Year III

Revolt of Prairial , Year III. 1795. Revolt of Prairial , Year III. The R evolt of Prairial Y ear III was a Jacobin popular revolt in Paris on May 20 th 1795 against the Thermidorian National Convention.

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Revolt of Prairial , Year III

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  1. Revolt of Prairial, Year III 1795

  2. Revolt of Prairial, Year III • The Revolt of PrairialYear III was a Jacobin popular revolt in Paris on May 20th 1795 against the Thermidorian National Convention. • It was provoked by poverty and hunger resulting from a large hike in prices due to the major depreciation of the assignats. • It lead to The Constitution of The Year III (1795)

  3. Constitution of The Year III (1795) • More conservative in nature • Elections were nullified • Martial law was imposed • It created created “The Directory” and institutionalized “The Thermidorean Reaction”, which was a five-an oligarchy (to avoid a dictatorship)

  4. Characteristics of The Directory • People involved in the original terror were now attacked • Inflation continued • Rich, bourgeois liberals were in power • The culture was defined by self-indulgence, including the return of salons • Political corruption • Revival of Catholicism

  5. Political Instability: 1795-1796 • April 1795: inflation, bread riots • October, 1795: revolt of the right • May 1796: First “communist” revolt by Gracchus Babeuf in the form of the “Conspiracy of Equals”

  6. 18 Brumaire (November 9th, 1799) Coup d'état by Napoleon

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